TOR084. Released February 2022.
01 A Crack in the Lake
02 Rites of Presage
03 The Scorpion and the Seahorse
04 The Girl and the Glass Ocean
05 The Prettiest Corpse
06 Shades from the Witching Well
07 Night Falls
08 Circle
09 The Lesley Experiment
10 Winter of the Red Queen
11 Parliament of Tears
12 Cadexe
13 The Leph
14 The Sun Chimes
15 The Sentinel and the Ferryman
16 Another Dawn
The players were:-
Al: atmospherics (3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16), bass (3, 15), cello (1, 3), chant (2), chimes (4, 16), choir (2), drill (3, 11), drones (1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16), drums (3, 9, 15), field recordings (2, 3, 8, 9, 15), fridge (2), glass (2, 3, 4), keys (4), organ (4, 15), percussion (3, 4, 11, 15, 16), piano (1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15), shamisen (15), strings (4)
plus lephertronics on everything except (9), on which there are no lephertronics.
Ste: acoustic guitar (3, 4, 10, 14), bass guitar (3, 9, 13), field recordings (3, 5, 9, 15), mandolin (7), sitar (15)
Marc: acoustic guitar (2, 13), bass guitar (4, 6, 13, 14), inverted vocal (15)
Steve: Drums (3, 9, 15)
Brian: fuffing (15)
Catherine: violin (2, 7, 13, 14, 15)
Dave: vocals (10, 15, 16)
Tim: vocals (1)
Anna: spoken word (2, 4, 10, 11, 12)
and
Robin: flaneurettes (5, 6) - scannerdot.com/2020/04/the-birth-of-flaneur-electronique/
Free to use without copyright
"neatonk": "MISStereoPiano" (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13) - freesound.org/people/neatonk/packs/9133/
"khunseng": "DR000723" (2) - freesound.org/s/112141/
"Satoration": "mass in croatian cathedral" (2) - freesound.org/s/54753/
"Kaiho": "Sitar long.aiff" (15) - freesound.org/s/37715/
All players performed by Shelterland; all music written by Shelterland
words on (11) adapted from «Людей теряют только раз» by Геннадий Шпаликов
Design & photography by Al
(except image #7 adapted from a photograph taken by Joy & Alf in Soweto, January 13th, 1976)
Box design by Al
Mixed at the Kitchen Sync between 2014 and 2022
freesound.org samples adapted and edited under Creative Commons Attribution license
Summary: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
© Shelterland, 2022 ℗ Treehouse Orchestra Recordings, 2022
Thanks for their (sometimes unwitting) involvement goes to Alastair Popple, Stephen Benson, Marc Gillen, Steve Orchiton, Catherine Reding, Dave Thompson, and Tim Popple.
Circle is for Anna, a friend in need.
Brian was a pheasant, by now long since lunch.
Also thanks to Robin Rimbaud for his free flaneur sample pack, and to the uploaders at freesound.org.
Handmade double CDR edition in engraved wooden box with photo booklet, plus USB drive containing the album in various digital formats, an 'Isolated Versions' edition of the album, and a bonus EP of exclusive tracks.
Streaming, download and limited edition box available from Bandcamp.
